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Beautiful Music
A minister once told this story about himself. When he was quite young, perhaps ten or twelve years old, he had a gift of being able to play the piano by “ear”. His mother paid for lessons, and all his teachers were impressed with his ability. His mother also knew that he had not ever…
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Promises
Michelle was a three year old little girl when her family, including an older sister and brother, moved into the house across the street from our house. I soon got to meet the whole family, and we became friends. My daughter had just left home for college, and I was “empty nesting”, so I enjoyed…
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Oneness
God used a powerful image in comparison between Himself and a woman with a new -born baby. It’s an appealing image, for it is universally understood, and lets us have an inkling to the bond that God seeks with us: Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the…
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Doing Wrong
“When this son of yours, who has squandered your property with harlots, comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!” (Luke 15:30) These are the bitter words of a faithful older son to his father on the return of a faithless, wrong doing younger son. They are entirely true of the younger son, and…
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Tobacco And Grace
In 1674 King James I of England wrote and published “King James, His Counterblast to Tobacco”, a treatise on the damage that smoking tobacco caused. He asserted that the practice was harmful to the lungs, mouth, and discolored the teeth. It fouled the breath and made a person smell bad and unpleasant in company. He…
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Hannah Arose
Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah arose. ( 1Samuel 1:9) The arising of Hannah at Shiloh is one of the most pivotal moments in the history of both Israel and of Christianity; for this is the spiritual moment of decision in the mind of a young woman that will change…
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Food From The Sky
One day when our Sunday School class was discussing Corrie ten Boom’s description of Amsterdam at the end of World War II; of the eighteen wheeler trucks from Canada waiting at the border for the Armistice, to move in and deliver food for the starving Dutch population, Peggy DeRuyter exclaimed , “I saw those trucks!…
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The House
When my sister Holly and I visited our childhood home after many years away from there, she rang the doorbell and we were met by two young girls who were home alone. I explained that we had once lived in their house; and would we be allowed to visit them? They answered that they would…
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In Disguise
The Resurrection is the most mysterious event in the history of the world. Its mystery is enhanced by the many eyewitnesses to both the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. For forty days following his Resurrection Jesus was seen by over 500 believers. (1Corinthians 15:6) There is an overwhelming amount of truly pertinent information that we could…
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Two Things
The remains of the cell where Paul was confined in Philippi There are two things about St. Paul that astound me whenever I read the book of Acts or his letters. The first one is that Paul was such an intense persecutor of Christians. He displayed not the slightest human compassion for individuals who had…
